Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date April 15, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/04/binary-system-podcast-262-lore-olympus-bojack-horseman-and-the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier/ After this week's SitRep on the vaccine situation (Mom, Dad, and Nathan are 2 for 2, Kathryn and Hannah are 1 for 2, and Elizabeth's 0 for 2.) (Hurry up Elizabeth! - Kathryn) (I'M WORKING ON IT. -...

Original broadcast date April 8, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/04/binary-system-podcast-261-wtnv-185-fair/ It's a beautiful day in Night Vale, and it's time once again to run around in circles and PANIC because the Librarians have escaped their cages. Fortunately, heroic teen militia leader Tamika Flynn is here to save the day by...helping the Librarians g...

Original broadcast date April 1, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/04/binary-system-podcast-260-comic-con-diamond-bojack-horseman-and-lore-olympus/ As we slooooowly (dear lord so slowly) move out of the pandemic (KNOCK WOOD) other, less horrific news is taking its place in the weekly SitRep. In this episode the news is about a certain ship that got stuck in a...

Original broadcast date March 18, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/03/binary-system-podcast-259-wtnv-184-the-fog/ Raise a glass, or a can (of beer), or a cup (of hot cider), because the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA is officially one year old. To distract us from this grim milestone we have a new Night Vale episode (featuring Deb, the Sentient Patch of Haze) a...

Original broadcast date March 11, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/03/binary-system-podcast-258-wandavision-season-finale/ WandaVision wrapped up last week and we have thoughts . ALL THE SPOILER WARNINGS for the entire season, plus bits of Infinity War and Endgame too of course. But first up is the weekly SitRep over beers (some people in our family have been...

Original broadcast date March 4, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/03/binary-system-podcast-257-wtnv-183-the-nephilim/ Okay, so according to the latest Night Vale episode Director's Notes (which you can get if you sign up to their Patreon, hint hint), Kathryn may have misspoken a little. The episode wasn't "weird for weird's sake", but it still doesn't have an...

Original broadcast date February 25, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/02/binary-system-podcast-256-wandavision-and-lore-olympus-again/ That's right, we actually got completely caught up with WandaVision! And now we have to wait an entire week before the next episode. Seven days to get new content what is this the stone ages? #firstworldproblems ANYWAY, we're...

Original broadcast date February 18, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/02/binary-system-podcast-255-wtnv-182-it-sticks-with-you-and-many-other-things/ Over in Night Vale, Cecil and Carlos are (probably) suffering from a little cabin fever, so this week they decided to take their young son Esteban to go hiking! It was a wonderful trip, they made so many good me...

Original broadcast date April 20, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/02/binary-system-podcast-254-wandavision-and-lore-olympus/ Yes, you're reading it right: we're actually watching a TV show that isn't three years old or cancelled! Of course we're at least four episodes behind everybody else but that's not important right now. So first up we jump into the firs...

Original broadcast date February 4, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/02/binary-system-podcast-253-wtnv-181-cs-and-the-wicked-the-divine/ Okay you need to count the number of asterisks in the title, because it's not the word you think it is. (Unless we're the only ones who went there? We listen to a lot of off-color Brit podcasts and they use that word more th...

Original broadcast date January 28, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/01/binary-system-podcast-252-legion-and-the-return-of-the-sitrep/ In typical, timely, "we are so on top of pop culture" fashion, we started watching Legion. A year and a half after the final episode aired. (We'd say that's a record for us, but we're sure you know it isn't.) There's so much a...

Original broadcast date January 21, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/01/binary-system-podcast-251-the-good-place-series-finale/ Since Kathryn finally finished the last season of The Good Place (only a year late! Gotta be a record!) we decided to break down everything we loved about it. Massive spoiler warnings of course! Plus we talk about the last two chapte...

Original broadcast date January 14, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/01/binary-system-podcast-250-six-years-in-still-no-plan/ Happy 250th episode! Way back in June of 2014 we were getting ready to listen to the latest episode of Night Vale and then talk about it over Skype, and we thought "hey, maybe we should record this?" Six and a half years later and the...

Original broadcast date January 7, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/01/binary-system-podcast-249-welcome-to-night-vale-180-u-view/ So, look, FOR THE RECORD we recorded this last Sunday night. We said that we had no idea how the congressional debate was going to turn out. We even called the proceedings so far a dumpster fire. WE CLEARLY HAD NO IDEA what was ab...

Original broadcast date December 31, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/12/binary-system-podcast-248-welcome-to-night-vale-live-show-all-smiles-eve-a-bloodstone-carol/ It's New Years Eve! Hope everyone's celebrating in their own fashion knowing that 2021 is going to be an amazing year. It WILL. There aren't any other options. We're not kidding around here. ANYW...

Original broadcast date December 24, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/12/binary-system-podcast-247-the-mandalorian-season-finale-and-lore-olympus/ When it comes to the season two finale of The Mandalorian, we really don't have a choice: we're going to have to geek out about it for fifteen minutes. We know, we know, it's a tough job but somebody's gotta do it....

Original broadcast date December 17, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/12/binary-system-podcast-246-lore-olympus-the-mandalorian-and-black-mirror/ There's no new Welcome to Night Vale episode to recap quite yet, so once again we go back to the well that is The Mandalorian and the webcomic Lore Olympus, with the addition this week of Black Mirror, and we've got...

Original broadcast date December 10, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/12/binary-system-podcast-245-welcome-to-night-vale-179-first-snow/ Oh the weather outside is frightful (it's 59 degrees in San Diego) but inside it's just delightful (yes please stay inside we would like this pandemic to be OVER NOW) and since we've no place to go (because shutdowns!) let i...

Original broadcast date December 3, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/12/binary-system-podcast-244-lore-olympus-and-the-mandalorian/ We managed to miscalculate once again, so this week we do not have a new Night Vale episode. Instead, we'll talk about our two latest obsessions, The Mandalorian and the webcomic Lore Olympus. Spoilers are, of course, a given, so...

Original broadcast date November 26, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/11/binary-system-podcast-243-happy-thanksgiving/ We're grateful for a lot of things this week: big important things like our family staying safe during the *gestures wildly in all directions* and little things like web comics about Greek gods and TV shows with speeder bike chases in canyons...

Original broadcast date November 19, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/11/binary-system-podcast-242-welcome-to-night-vale-178-rattlesnake-rest/ Of course we recap a deliciously creepy Night Vale episode, full of cemeteries and time loops and the worst-case scenario when it comes to hermit crabs. Of course we geek out over badass Mandalorians and adorable frog...

Original broadcast date October 4, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/10/binary-system-podcast-bonus-episode-interview-with-rob-shinno-of-hemisphere/ Elizabeth here: I've known my friend Rob Shinno for almost 20 years, but I had no idea until recently that he's a professional musician, and his band Hemisphere has just released a brand new album, America...

Original broadcast date November 12, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/11/binary-system-podcast-241-welcome-to-night-vale-177-bloody-laws-bloody-claws-the-murder-of-frank-chen/ Cecil's been neglecting Night Vale Radio a bit in order to dip his toes in the glitzy world of True Crime Podcasts lately (he's already on episode 722 of his latest venture, my how time...

Original broadcast date October 29, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/10/binary-system-podcast-240-whats-getting-us-through-the-week/ What with, you know, THE WORLD, sometimes you have to take the time to watch some movie or read some book that either makes you happy or just makes for a nice distraction FOR LIKE FIVE MINUTES, HONESTLY 2020 KNOCK IT OFF. So aft...

Original broadcast date October 22, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/10/binary-system-podcast-239-welcome-to-night-vale-176-the-autumn-specter/ It's a spooky Halloween episode of Welcome to Night Vale, with radio host Cecil telling three spooky stories (with a twist ending: they're not very spooky at all) while the new radio station intern does spooky things...